- From: Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:49:57 +0000 (GMT)
- To: "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>, "Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>
- Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
(I'm following up a very old message here, and I've deleted most of the cc: list.) We're planning a new XML Base PER and I'm trying to get the patent statement right. Here's what you (Ian) said a year ago: > More followup! > > I think that all PERs that revise Recommendations published > prior to the CPP are covered by the CPP. Here is my reference [1], > in section "2. Considerations when a New Charter for an Existing Working > Group is Revised to Include the W3C Patent Policy": > > "Proposed Edited Recommendations derived from a Recommendation not > developed under the W3C Patent Policy, will be governed by the CPP." > > I had forgotten about that provision earlier in the thread. > > Thus, I return to my previous position which is that it is appropriate > to have this first sentence in the boilerplate: > > "This document is governed by the 24 January 2002 CPP as amended by the > W3C Patent Policy Transition Procedure." Here's the text I'm planning to use. Note that the links for "essential claims" and "disclosure" point into the 2002 document; I assume that's right. (Disclosure is section 3 in the 2002 document, not 6.) <p> This document is governed by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-patent-practice-20020124">24 January 2002 CPP</a> as amended by the W3C Patent Policy Transition Procedure. W3C maintains a <loc rel="disclosure" href="http://www.w3.org/2002/08/xmlcore-IPR-statements">public list of any patent disclosures</loc> made in connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent. An individual who has actual knowledge of a patent which the individual believes contains <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-patent-practice-20020124#def-Essential-Claims"> Essential Claim(s)</loc> must disclose the information in accordance with <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-patent-practice-20020124#sec-Disclosure"> section 3 of the W3C Patent Policy</loc>. </p> -- Richard
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